Author: micky_wee_dram

‘That tastes like they made it from an ashtray’. A good friend passed the glass back towards me and shook his head, disgusted. A ten year old glass of Ardbeg, costs roughly €70 a bottle and he almost spat it back at me. I could only laugh because as much as I liked it, I could totally see his point of view.

The first decent bottle of whiskey I ever drank was a 12 year old Jameson, I drank it on Christmas day on an oil tanker, about 500 miles from land in the middle of the Indian Ocean, on that day I’d never felt further from home and yet there was something familiar in the taste of that bottle, something reassuring.